Obama won. All said and done an electoral college landslide - 332 to
206 votes. Additionally he is only the fifth president in U.S.
history to win a majority, and not just a plurality, of the popular
vote twice. And yet average republicans were shocked by the results of
the election. Truly shocked. They were sure Romney was going to win.
Why? Because their sources of 'information' are unreliable. They had been told repeatedly Romney was winning and would win. He didn't and they were lied to.
Many mainstream republicans chose to live within a bubble isolated from the rest of us and from reality. Without realizing it they seek out their own bias and are deliberately misinformed by their information sources. Perhaps then they should examine the reliability of these sources and not just as regards the election - but also to accusations that Obama is a Muslim, a socialist, that he will steal their freedoms, steal their guns, give what little they have to the poor or lazy, that the world will soon end, we can expect mushroom clouds over America, and all the rest of the fear tactics and outright lies their information sources beat into them in thinly veiled attempts to advance their agendas - and make money.
Republicans are shocked because they are out of touch with mainstream America. Misinformed and lied to they have a distorted picture of Obama, Romney, the general sentiment of America, and of reality. No wonder they were so shocked.
Why? Because their sources of 'information' are unreliable. They had been told repeatedly Romney was winning and would win. He didn't and they were lied to.
Many mainstream republicans chose to live within a bubble isolated from the rest of us and from reality. Without realizing it they seek out their own bias and are deliberately misinformed by their information sources. Perhaps then they should examine the reliability of these sources and not just as regards the election - but also to accusations that Obama is a Muslim, a socialist, that he will steal their freedoms, steal their guns, give what little they have to the poor or lazy, that the world will soon end, we can expect mushroom clouds over America, and all the rest of the fear tactics and outright lies their information sources beat into them in thinly veiled attempts to advance their agendas - and make money.
Republicans are shocked because they are out of touch with mainstream America. Misinformed and lied to they have a distorted picture of Obama, Romney, the general sentiment of America, and of reality. No wonder they were so shocked.